Please join us for our annual magazine release party, Words and Pictures.
At the event, this year’s art and writing contests winners will be announced.
After April 25, Root and Branch XII will be freely available to all Ivy Tech students — in print (while supplies last) and on this website. Contact us at bl-litmag@lists.ivytech.edu (or stop by C122) to get your print copy.
The December 1 is fast approaching — please send us your work!
Click Submissions to get the details.
Root and Branch received a second place award in the 2018 CCHA Literary Magazine Competition (Central Region, Large Colleges division).
Two of our students also earned awards:
Rachel Batka won 2nd Place for her photo “Equilibrium” (Photography, Central Region)
Salem Naylor won 3rd Place for her cover art “Silent Duel” (Artwork, Central Region)
The Ivy Tech-Bloomington literary magazine has always been for our students.
Therefore, we are making changes to be able to make our next volume (to be published in April 2019) free to students. We are hoping this change will also emphasize that our magazine reflects all of our students’ voices.
To do this, of course, means we lose income from sales. To counteract this loss, we have set up a fund with the Ivy Tech Foundation to help us raise money to maintain our editorships, promotion, and production.
If you’d like to donate (or know someone who would like to), please download the Ivy Tech-BL English Program Fund information sheet and the Ivy Tech-BL English Program Pledge Form. Note: the information sheet explains how to donate online if you prefer that route.
Thank you, contributors, for being a part of the first issue of root and branch! The editors and I are so proud of the new version of the magazine — new name but same excellent quality of writing and art. A bonus thank you to all who came and shared at the 2018 Words and Pictures. It was a truly wonderful evening!
2018 Writing Contest Winners
Kyle Aiken, “Forecast”
Nathan Skky, “A Second Voice”
Victoria Englert, “Veins”
2018 Art Contest Winners
Jessica Brocchini, “Crow”
Rachel Batka, “Equilibrium”
Salem Naylor, “Stargaze”
(Salem was also responsible for this issue’s cover art, “Silent Duel”)
Please join us for this year’s magazine release party!
Three of our students have been awarded four certificates in the Community College Humanities Association 2017 Literary Magazine Competition for their work that was published in Mé Tis, vol. X:
Brynn Parkinson: 1st Place Best Script Central Region for “Chatterbox Bus Stop”
Nikolas Maden: 2nd Place Poems Central Region for “Tempest” and 3rd Place Best Photography Central Region for “Gatherings”
Kenneth Fahr: 3rd Place Creative Nonfiction Central Region for “First Contact”
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